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Butterfly Gardens For Your Region
I grew up in the city surrounded by asphalt and concrete sidewalks, brick buildings and vacant lots – but there was no lack of nature or butterflies in my life. Amid the sprawl of a decaying urban landscape, the overgrown vacant lots choked with...
Choosing the Right Roses for Your Garden
The selection of roses you can grow in your home garden is enormous. With so many to choose from, finding just the right ones may seem more like work than play. To make this process easier, here are a few important factors to help you narrow down...
Landscape Design - Creating Balance In Home Landscaping
Balance is a principle of all art forms, design, and even
landscape design. It implies a sense of equality. And while
there may be just a little more to it, this is how I explain it
to make it easier for first timers and do it yourselfers...
Minimizing Runoff and Erosion Along Your Lakeshore, Stream or River Property
Designing your landscape to care for your shoreline is extremely
important not only for protecting the integrity of your
property, but also to protect to quality of your neighboring
water body. You can control sedimentation and conditions...
Preparing to Build Wooden Fences in the Landscape
While chain link fences are use in some landscapes, most people prefer to make use of wooden fences when building an attractive landscape. This is because wood is a rather versatile material that can be made to look a variety of ways. Installing...
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The 7 Schools Of Feng Shui
Everyone has heard of Feng Shui, but what exactly is it? Feng
Shui is an ancient Chinese belief that involves the study of
both the natural and the created environments. To achieve a
balance between the 2 affects the energy of a room.
7 Schools Of Feng Shui
There are many different versions of Feng Shui, each influenced
by culture, geography, and religion. There are 7 predominant
types or schools of Feng Shui:
1. The Compass School uses the 8 trigrams of the I-Ching. They
are known collectively as Pa Kua, which is based on the 8 main
directions of a compass. Each direction is associated with a
specific chi. For example, southern is vibrant energy.
2. The Form School, based on the landscape's shape, uses 4
symbolic animals to identify the landscape. Easy to use, the
Form School (along with the Compass School) increases chi both
in and out of the home.
3. The Black Hat Sect uses a fixed entry point to determine the
area. Although similar to the Compass School philosophy, it has
differences. The Black Hat Sect also consists of psychology,
Buddhism and basic design principles.
4. 8 Mansion School, also known as the 8 House Feng Shui, is
based on the individual number of the person living in the home.
That number is used to bring harmony and balance to the home.
People who use this system have both lucky and unlucky numbers,
with the west numbers being 2, 6, 7, and 8 and the east numbers
being 1, 3, 4, and 9.
5. The 9 Star Key School uses stars to help identify lucky and
unlucky days. This school of thought uses complicated math
formulas to pinpoint when a person will get married and the
astrological sign of the future marriage partners. It will also
tell the practitioner how to live
based on his house.
6. The most common form of Feng Shui, based on astrology and
numerology, is the Flying Star Philosophy. Difficult to
understand and learn, it is also based on mathematical
principals and is used to determine a person's fate.
7. Four Pillars, the final school of thought, is not very
common. Based on astrology tied to the person's date of birth
right down to the minutes, this form of Feng Shui is also used
to determine a person's fate.
5 Elements Of Feng Shui
After determining which school of thought is best for an
individual, it is important to understand the 5 elements of Feng
Shui. They are: Earth, Fire, Water, Metal, and Wood. Balance and
harmony can be created in a home through the use of these
elements. If used incorrectly, however, the energy can be
lessened or even destroyed.
Each of the 5 elements is also associated with a direction:
Earth -- Southwest Fire -- South Water -- North Metal -- West
Wood -- East
Beauty And Balance
In a Feng Shui home, all rooms should achieve a balance of these
elements, although some items may weigh heavier than others. A
chair might score 3 times more than a throw pillow, for example,
because of the size difference.
Properly applied, Feng Shui brings both beauty and balance to
the home or office.
About the author:
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Shui Home Design to learn more. Ron King is a full-time
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